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Leaflet is a popular open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It provides a wide range of features for rendering and interacting with geospatial data, including support for various tile layers, markers, and vector layers. Compared to @deck.gl/geo-layers, Leaflet is more focused on 2D map rendering and has a simpler API, but it lacks the advanced 3D visualization capabilities of deck.gl.
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The npm package @deck.gl/geo-layers receives a total of 234,611 weekly downloads. As such, @deck.gl/geo-layers popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @deck.gl/geo-layers demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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